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On October 22 was officially presented the update of the collaboration agreement between Conversia data protection and the College of social graduates of Malaga and Melilla whereby colleges may adapt its activity to the data protection act on preferential terms. This adaptation is an essential requirement for all companies, regardless of their size and turnover, and failure to comply with the law may involve sanctions of up to 600,000 euros. Advantages of the Convention reached agreement allows colleges adapt to the data protection act with preferential conditions, also having the possibility of taking specific courses about the LOPD. Conversia also features an innovative insurance of civil responsibility that ensures the correct adaptation to LOPD and protects your customers from possible complaints relating to the law. About the LOPD and the LSSICE La law organic 15/1999 of 13 of December of protection of data of a Personal nature, (LOPD), and law 34/2002, of 11 of July, of services of the information society and electronic commerce (LSSICE or LSSI) containing a number of rules of mandatory that, years after its entry into force, are not yet implemented in most of the cases. The data protection Act requires companies to meet certain requirements as discharge from the files in the register of the Spanish Agency of data protection or a certain level of security for these files, but today there are many companies that are unaware of the sanctions regime that exists to ensure compliance and enforcement of these requirements. Activities that may be as common as the communication of customer data to the Bank or to others that are common as the massive sending of emails without prior authorization from recipients, can pose severe sanctions which in many cases could be avoided with the adaptation of certain processes and documents to a law whose ignorance does not exempt from compliance. Conversia protection of data Conversia is a consulting legal specializes in the adaptation of enterprises to the LOPD and LSSI.

Through its data protection Conversia division, this consultancy offers a range of services aimed at ensuring compliance with both laws of easy, safely and economically. Examples of the LOPD and LSSI for example about the LOPD, as set out in the articles 44.4. to) and 45.3 of the LOPD, a collection of data in fraudulently as for example the transfer of customer data to the Bank without complying with articles 6 and 11 of the data protection act can result in a penalty of between 300,000 and 600,000 euros((, On the other hand, LSSI provides penalties of up to 30,000 euros in accordance with the articles 38.4. c) or (d)) when a company promoted by electronic arts in breach. 20 or 21 of this Act.